With the two half retirement and widowhood pensions he charges, Susana (79 years old) does not arrive at the end of the month. Because it enters 800 euros of the Social Security every month but pays 600 euros for rent. And, with the 200 euros that are left over, you must face the bill of light, gas or water. “It’s impossible,” he acknowledges.
Like María Teresa (80 years), which also has Difficulties to survive with 840 euros of pensionSusana rent the two rooms of her home to university students. It is a way of entering extra money with which to complete your pension. She, in return, must sleep on the couch. This has been told to the well -known 17 -year -old YouTuber, Jire4 who points out in the presentation of the interview that “they are not the only people in Spain who live with that money, many do it with much less.” The message he wants to convey with the video is that “our elders must juggle to be able to get the month forward.”
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“I have no money,” Susana begins that the interview begins, which gives rise to ask why. To the low income he receives for his pensions, he must add that he lives in Barcelona, one of the most expensive cities in Spain according to Idealistic.
“800 euros I think no one is charged”
The interviewer asks Susana if you can live dignity charging 800 euros in Spain. “I think that amount is not charged.” He explains that he charges “half a retirement pension and a half of widowhood and payment 600 euros of rent, because I have been living here for many years.”
“So, with 200 euros that I have left I have to pay electricity, water and gas … I don’t get at all.” Therefore, one day he decided to rent rooms to students. “They are girls who are in university and that the stay that passes in my house is limited: there are 6 or 9 months.”
Although it does not mean how much they charge these young women “because it is very personal,” does notice that with what he enters he has enough although “I must sleep on the couch.”
“I can’t afford anything, what I do is always free”
The lack of money causes Susana to neglect certain activities. “I can’t afford anything, everything I do is free, paint and sing.” For her, the past times were worse, “with Franco was lived fatal, but you ask about the economy, for me it is similar.”
The fault, for the retiree, is of the politicians, since “they could do more.” “Life has already uploaded working people harms us because those who earn a lot, earn a lot of money and those who earn little, less.”
On ideologies, he defends that “all are the same, they have stolen us a lot throughout life.”
“They never registered me in Social Security and I worked in black”
On Social Security contributions, he points out that he can accredit 17 years, but nothing more, although “I have worked my whole life” although “my bosses have not registered me and I have charged black.” “In my first company, I worked for 9 hours a day and if they asked you to be on Saturday, you had to go.”
One of his dreams, which is to have his own house, has gone over the years. There are few savings for the expenses of their daughters and “I have never been enough to pay an entry.”